microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score

62 vs 74

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 63

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:0.6b

MachineMacBook AirMicrosoft WSL

CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Cores1012

RAM32 GB8 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec40.3249.5

First chunk289 ms80 ms

TTFT289 ms659 ms

Load timeN/A6.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.9 GB

Memory %6%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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